Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking [electronic resource] : rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence / by Tuomas Rasimus.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 68.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: xx, 355 p., 20 p. of plates : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 273/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • BT1390 .R38 2009eb
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Contents:
pt. I. Introduction. Rethinking Sethianism -- pt. II. Myth and innovation. The serpent -- The creator and the Archons -- Sophia, Eve and gnosis -- Adam and Christ -- The pillars of Seth : Sethianization of Ophite and Barbeloite myths -- pt. III. Ritual. Evidence for Ophite snake worship -- Anathema Iesous : Origen on the Ophite cursing of Jesus -- The Ophite seal, Sethian baptism and the Johannine prologue.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Helsinki and Université Laval, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

pt. I. Introduction. Rethinking Sethianism -- pt. II. Myth and innovation. The serpent -- The creator and the Archons -- Sophia, Eve and gnosis -- Adam and Christ -- The pillars of Seth : Sethianization of Ophite and Barbeloite myths -- pt. III. Ritual. Evidence for Ophite snake worship -- Anathema Iesous : Origen on the Ophite cursing of Jesus -- The Ophite seal, Sethian baptism and the Johannine prologue.

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